What was 1920’s art like? By: Marisol Menendez and Libby Davis Art Influences • Art in the 1920’s was mainly influenced by two movements: Dada and Surrealism. Dada Art • Dada was an anti-art movement . Anti Art painters rejected in some way the conventional artistic standards. • It was born out of negative reaction to the horrors of World War I. It rejected reason and logic‚ prizing nonsense‚ irrationality and intuition. Many Dada artist scattered across Europe after Great War ended. Dada’s
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culture. The past 100 years we have seen the American Dream drastically change from being the materialistic sense that people had in the 1920s‚ to being the demand for mainstream media attention people seek today. The materialistic point of view still exists today‚ but as one would see the demand for fame
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human‚ but gradually turning into them in the end. Animal Farm discusses the oppression the animals have to face and the constant conflict between human and animal. Boxer and Squealer are examples
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Food legislation in 1920 was less effective than food legislation now but‚ due to the reduced number of food involved issues in 1920‚ the health of food then was better then food now. In 1920 all food legislation was leftover from the Pure food and Drug act of 1906 which was involved in the meatpacking industry to prevent the mislabeling and adulteration of food‚ within state borders. (FDA‚ 1906) Legislation now covers almost all important issues involving food and public health with the exception
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I come to realize that the economy in the 1920s was bad because it was the beginning of the Great Depression. But the depression could have been avoided if the Feds became more aware in the beginning and stopped over looking it. The great depression led to unemployment and factories being shut down. The Great Depression was in the 1920s when the stock market crashed. During the depression there were a quarter of teens in the country living on the streets by themselves. It started because people wan
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The economic change in the 1920s helped build the landscape for modern workers in America. Manufacturing plants began to pop up across the country in various places such as Detroit and people like Henry Ford pioneered the way for mass production (pg 689‚693). Along with the changes in the way people work‚ changes in the economy also gave people the time and ability to have leisure time and to take interest in hobbies. In today’s manufacturing plants there are a lot of workers working together to
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Oppressed people deal with their oppression in three characteristic ways. One way is acquiescence: the oppressed resign themselves to their doom. They tacitly adjust themselves to oppression and thereby become conditioned to it. In every movement toward freedom some of the oppressed prefer to remain oppressed. Almost 2800 years ago Moses set out to lead the children of Israel from the slavery of Egypt to the freedom of the Promised Land. He soon discovered that slaves do not always welcome their
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In the 1920’s there was a financial success‚ they called this success “The Economic Boom”. The causes for the boom was multiple things‚ one of the major ones was the production of automobiles. Once America figured out how to produce cars at a faster rate‚ this not only helped out that industry but it also help improve many more. Because more cars were being produced at a faster rate‚ many industries like the construction‚ hospitality‚ and oil industries increased dramatically. The first reason for
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Philadelphia reported gangs as early as 1840. Between then and 1870 Philadelphia became home to over 100 street gangs. This is also the time when gangs started to use clothing for the sake of distinctiveness. Chicago became a type of gang capital during the 1920s‚ with a total of about 1‚300 gangs and about 25‚000 gang members. Immigration of Mexicans into California grew rapidly in this period. Many youngsters of the second generation didn’t fit in the American society. They started wearing fancy and distinctive
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The 1920s was a decade of exciting social changes and reflective cultural conflicts. For many Americans‚ the growth of cities‚ the rise of a consumer culture‚ and the so-called “revolution in morals and manners” represented a liberation from the restrictions of the country’s Victorian past. But for others‚ the United States was changing in undesirable ways. The result was a veiled “cultural civil war‚” in which a pluralistic society classed bitterly over such issues as foreign immigration‚ evolution
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